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    Climate
    News
    December 12, 2020

    STATEMENT: Climate Ambition Summit Highlights Important Progress But More Action Needed in 2021

    • Paris Agreement
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • Climate
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    March 9, 2020

    To Unlock the Potential of Direct Air Capture, We Must Invest Now

    • carbon removal
    • climate change
    The US Capitol, where Congress just authorized investment in carbon removal. Photo by Lara Eakins/Flickr
    • carbon removal
    • climate change
    Climate
    North America
    News
    February 7, 2019

    STATEMENT: Green New Deal Rekindles Climate Conversation in the U.S.

    • U.S. Climate
    • climate policy
    • Equity & Governance
    • U.S. Climate
    • climate policy
    • Equity & Governance
    Climate
    Insights
    January 21, 2019

    Climate Action Barometer: 12 Charts Explain Where We Are Today, and Where We Need to Be in 2020

    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    Climate
    Data
    January 21, 2019

    Tracking Progress of the 2020 Climate Turning Point

    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    Cities
    Initiatives
    September 12, 2018

    Cities4Forests

    Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
    Climate
    Asia
    Insights
    May 20, 2016

    Lessons on Implementing Community-Based Climate Adaptation Plans in the Lower Mekong Basin

    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • rivers
    Boats in a river
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • rivers
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 2, 2016

    A New Global Goal: Doubling Community and Indigenous Land by 2020

    • human rights
    • land rights
    • mapping
    rice harvesting
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • mapping
    Finance
    News
    June 3, 2015

    RELEASE: New Analysis Offers Pathways for International Climate Funding to Reach $100 Billion Annually by 2020

    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • UNFCCC
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • UNFCCC
    Forests
    Insights
    March 20, 2015

    Bonn Challenge On Track to Meet Land Restoration Goal by 2020

    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Peter Ndunda, Technical Program Manager, Clinton Climate Initiative (right) plants a tree in the Ethiopia's Lake Abaya Region with a local man. Photo by Aaron Minnick
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Climate
    Insights
    March 5, 2015

    World’s 15 Countries with the Most People Exposed to River Floods

    • Freshwater
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • floods
    • climate change
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • water risk
    Citizens flee floods in Sri Lanka. Photo by trokilinochchi/Wikimedia Commons.
    • Freshwater
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • floods
    • climate change
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • water risk
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    July 30, 2014

    New French Satellite Imagery to Help Forest Management in the Congo Basin

    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • mapping
    • rivers
    When it comes to monitoring forests, the Congo Basin remains one of the most challenging environments in the world. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • mapping
    • rivers
    Freshwater
    Insights
    March 20, 2014

    World’s 18 Most Water-Stressed Rivers

    • Aqueduct
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Glen Canyon Dam in the Colorado River Basin. Photo credit: James Marvin Phelps
    • Aqueduct
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Climate
    Insights
    January 14, 2014

    Multinationals Need to Take Notice and Take Action on Water Risk Data

    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Aqueduct
    • climate change
    • rivers
    • water risk
    Brazil has 12% of the world's freshwater resources, but its industries, farms, and communities are concentrated along the coasts, unable to access much of the country's plentiful resources. Photo credit: Flickr/John Wiseman
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Aqueduct
    • climate change
    • rivers
    • water risk

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